posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:21:32 PMSince the 2007 one was such a success, we're going to keep doing it bi-weekly. The next year up is obviously 2003. Nominate away and the thread will closed for nominations Saturday night. Monday morning we'll start the voting.

posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:16:11 PMdidn't see that amun1ra1ptah already posted that asheru and no mask just posted the non-prophets seconds before me lol.

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tippi dink

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:17:56 PMand if we're including projects that are mostly instrumental..

Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher

^ definitely one of my favorite from that year.

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:23:57 PMDefari-Odds & Evens

Frukwan-Life

The D.O.C.-Deuce

Frank-n-Dank-48 hrs

Beans-Tomorrow Right Now

Jeru the Damaja-Divine Design

Antipop Consortium-Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp

Five Deez-Kinkynasti

Juice-Tip of the Iceberg

Big Noyd-Only the Strong

9th Prince-Grandaddy Flow

Monsta Island Czars-Escape From Monsta Island!

Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus-The Weather

Mountain Brothers-Triple Crown

Freddie Foxxx-The Konexion

Illogic-Write to Death

Thirstin Howl III-Licensed to Skill

2Mex-Sweat Lodge Infinite

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:43:59 PMmost of the ones I enjoyed were already listed

this year was kinda weak in terms of overall staying power....most of these albums were ok for their time, but have aged pretty poorly (sin-a-matic and the darkest cloud for example). nothing truly noteworthy although a lot of enjoyable music at least.

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 3:45:54 PMNot the best year. Just glancing at the albums - Champion Sound, Time Being, and Southerunderground are miles ahead of the others. The Listening and Sin A Matic are dope. So is Vaudeville Villain and 8 Million Stories. A few other good ones but nothing much.

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:31:19 PMdamn weatherman you used to love that vakill album haha

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Daddy Alfredo (Admin)

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:32:21 PMclock has alot of sifting to do. so many of u jerks named the same stuff

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 4:57:12 PMbabbletron mechanical royalty was the best, no one will agree

-scotty (the heel)

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:17:08 PMRip the Jacker

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Clockworx (Admin)

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:04:59 PMI know im guilty of it as well in these types of thread but if heads can make an attempt to look at the other albums nominated before posting theirs so we don't start getting multiples. If you're about to list the most obvious/popular ones then chances are it's been listed already.

Also instead of doing 4 rounds ill most likely do 2 rounds where heads can list their Top 10. The point system will be similar, just instead of 5 points for 1st place it'll be 10 points for 1st, 9 for 2nd, etc, etc, etc. Once we get to the finals it'll be the usual point system with users choosing their Top 5. Four rounds seemed to be overkill when we did 2007 so this just condenses it a little bit.

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posted Thursday, January 25, 2018 6:44:40 PMJust did a quick count and after clipping the doubles listed it looks like we got 100 albums or so listed already lulz.

But yea i think 2 rounds, Top 10, which i think Weather might've suggested or something along those lines, works best.

Maybe ill just make the cutoff tomorrow night at this rate. I mean lets be honest, any album that'd be nominated past tomorrow night isn't going to win the AOTY anyway.

posted Friday, January 26, 2018 8:54:50 AM...and to leave out 50's "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" would make this list invalid

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 9:08:55 AMThere was a lot of good stuff in 03 apparently.

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tippi dink

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 10:08:51 AMhow did you decide on 2003 anyway, are you purposely trying to get the weaker years out of the way or is that just a coincidence? or are you both just going backwards 4 years with gino starting at 2007 and clock starting at 2003? i think the rest of the 2000s threads will be more interesting than these two.

posted Friday, January 26, 2018 11:23:33 AMdamn weatherman you used to love that vakill album haha

it was good for its time, but hasn't aged very well.

it's extremely wordy, the beats are just ok, and just the overall vibe of the album doesn't interest me much anymore.

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 1:11:25 PMWeaker years? I was just thinking this one is going to be tough- there's over 100 nominations already. I already see about 10 Id be conflicted about!

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 1:21:22 PMmight just be me then, i think 2000-2002 and 2004-2006 are all stronger years. it would be harder for me to narrow them down to a top 10.

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Daddy Alfredo (Admin)

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 1:58:13 PMthe 90s yrs are gonna be much better just cuz its gonna be less than 100 albums to sift thru. plus not nearly as much ughh randomness. but im sure a few dickheads here will post a ton of forgotten 90s albums those yrs just cuz they re mortgaged ther house to buy an original copy on discogs.

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mic_data

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 2:27:38 PMYou could be right about them other years, I haven't looked back yet to see.

You might have to give us some time to go back through some of these albums to be sure they were actually as good as we remember.

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tippi dink

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posted Friday, January 26, 2018 2:31:03 PMyeah, that's why i kinda wish we knew the order of the years ahead of time.